If that's true you will be delighted. Labour knackered out of the way so that you can see off the Tories. All those Labour voters will surely vote SNP won't they?[/QUOTE]

It seems Sadiq Khan is doing a grand job pushing them our way.

Would be interesting if the SNP stood down here - pro brexit, maybe abolishing the House of Lords and replacing it with a UK federal govenment with the Hof C being the English Assembly. Wouldn't win but it would shift the agenda.

If that's true you will be delighted. Labour knackered out of the way so that you can see off the Tories. All those Labour voters will surely vote SNP won't they?[/QUOTE]

It seems Sadiq Khan is doing a grand job pushing them our way.

Calamitously ill-informed intervention by him today. If he's pitching to be a future Labour leader and claw back some voters from the SNP, then today he has gone the wrong way about it. Die hard unionists and lifelong Labourites might like to pretend Scottish independence is about nativism, but middle of the road no voters and the vast majority of Yes voters know it's complete nonsense.

Calamitously ill-informed intervention by him today. If he's pitching to be a future Labour leader and claw back some voters from the SNP, then today he has gone the wrong way about it. Die hard unionists and lifelong Labourites might like to pretend Scottish independence is about nativism, but middle of the road no voters and the vast majority of Yes voters know it's complete nonsense.

Well of course, that's why you get those most curious of specimens in the east end of Glasgow: west coast Labourites who are very much pro Ireland yet when it comes to their home country, it's some kind of terrible thing.

George Galloway types: all for self determination for pretty much any peoples of the world except where it comes to their own doorstep.

Well of course, that's why you get those most curious of specimens in the east end of Glasgow: west coast Labourites who are very much pro Ireland yet when it comes to their home country, it's some kind of terrible thing.

George Galloway types: all for self determination for pretty much any peoples of the world except where it comes to their own doorstep.

We have self-determination. We just determined what we think. Could Nicola get on with trying to run the country now for a while at least?

Even when handed gifts like todays U-turn on NI Corbyn completely fluffs any chance to make some ground on the Tories.

Doesn't even use all his questions when has a massive opportunity to hammer May.

Utterly depressing to be governed by this mob who can basically do what they want unless their own MPs stop her.

Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, vodka in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, "WOO HOO what a ride!"

Was all for him to start. Now come to realise that England (therefore the U.K.) has shifted right that people like Corbyn just are not even at the races anymore. He's a dinosaur and if we want a semi decent opposition then he must go.

The PLP is at the mercy of its membership, which is not in sync with the wider England.

Not a fan of the SNP but they are the only party holding the government tonaccount at the moment. They ARE the opposition.

Maybe it shows the extent to which Labour really needed the "Tartan Mafia" of the Blair years!

The Labour Party all but abandoned their core voters in Scotland (and in England for that matter). The Scots have opted for Hobson's choice. Nick Clegg's treacherous act of jumping into bed with the Tories killed off any chance the Lib/dems ever had of picking up disillusioned Labourites in 'Scotlandshire'.

All together now, sing, "Oh, Jamie Kerr, you used to be a Blairite, but you're alright now".

The initiation ceremony will wash it all off. Especially the steam clean, and bleach mix. The de-brief will be a bit boring though, as they've not done much recently.

A tattoo of our "Dear Leader" (this one just for the other team), and he's ready to go.

Red Tories is so last season. They're now the Anti European party.

Piece from twitter.

Events have moved so fast that our vocabulary hasn't quite caught up with them, and it's high time we updated the way we characterise certain political parties. *Scottish Labour, for example, should now quite properly be called an anti-European party - not in the sense of hating Germans or Italians, but in the more prosaic sense that they oppose our participation in European institutions. *There is no Labour proposal to reverse Brexit, and of course they dogmatically reject the only option that could keep Scotland in the EU after Brexit occurs. *They've gone all the way back to a position they last held in the 'longest suicide note in history' - their 1983 general election manifesto under Michael Foot. *They are separatists. *They want to build walls. *They think that what divides us from our European neighbours (ie. devotion to Blighty at all costs) is more important than what unites us.

The initiation ceremony will wash it all off. Especially the steam clean, and bleach mix. The de-brief will be a bit boring though, as they've not done much recently.

A tattoo of our "Dear Leader" (this one just for the other team), and he's ready to go.

Red Tories is so last season. They're now the Anti European party.

Piece from twitter.

Events have moved so fast that our vocabulary hasn't quite caught up with them, and it's high time we updated the way we characterise certain political parties. *Scottish Labour, for example, should now quite properly be called an anti-European party - not in the sense of hating Germans or Italians, but in the more prosaic sense that they oppose our participation in European institutions. *There is no Labour proposal to reverse Brexit, and of course they dogmatically reject the only option that could keep Scotland in the EU after Brexit occurs. *They've gone all the way back to a position they last held in the 'longest suicide note in history' - their 1983 general election manifesto under Michael Foot. *They are separatists. *They want to build walls. *They think that what divides us from our European neighbours (ie. devotion to Blighty at all costs) is more important than what unites us.

Here's an unanswerable case for Corbyn to go immediately from the Editor of the 'New Statesman'. There's a brilliant cinematic reference to a scene in 'LA Confidential', which goes someway towards providing an explanation as to why the Corbynistas fail to see what is blindingly obvious to the vast majority of the citizens of the electorate!

Here's an unanswerable case for Corbyn to go immediately from the Editor of the 'New Statesman'. There's a brilliant cinematic reference to a scene in 'LA Confidential', which goes someway towards providing an explanation as to why the Corbynistas fail to see what is blindingly obvious to the vast majority of the citizens of the electorate!

I'll stand by what i've said before. Corbyn himself is not the problem with the Labour Party. It's not Corbyns policies that are causing Labour to lose support, it is the constant internal party divisions being stirred up by the right wing of the Labour Party who would much rather the Conservatives won the next election, than Labour with Corbyn as leader.

It's so painstakingly obvious that those not getting it are choosing not to get it.

I'll stand by what i've said before. Corbyn himself is not the problem with the Labour Party. It's not Corbyns policies that are causing Labour to lose support, it is the constant internal party divisions being stirred up by the right wing of the Labour Party who would much rather the Conservatives won the next election, than Labour with Corbyn as leader.

It's so painstakingly obvious that those not getting it are choosing not to get it.

The strong showing from Emmanuel Macron in trhe French elections might show the way to a left leaning candidate with broader appeal than the current narrow, if well meaning, clique.

I don't understand the Macron thing. He was polling high before he'd even hinted at any policy. He was part of the PS (French labour equivalent) government, but chose to set out on his own for the presidential election. He's standing against Benoît Hamon, the PS candidate and has been endorsed by a few PS big hitters, meaning that Hamon has no chance.

Macron makes out that he's the people's candidate but that's bull. He's centrist at best (definitely not left), his background is strange (it's suspected that he's lied about his education but he's the MSM's darling so that's been played down). His rock chick geriatric wife is upper management with LVMH and I don't think he has any idea of the everyday life of the ordinary voter.